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Australia rooftop solar boom continues with best January ever

Thu, 2018-02-08 14:37
Australian homes and businesses continue to install solar at a cracking pace in January, adding another 111MW to the 2017 total of more than 1.25GW.
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OpenNEM: An open platform for National Electricity Market data

Thu, 2018-02-08 14:35
Energy Transition Hub is pleased to launch the OpenNEM project with the ‘alpha’ release of our website and our new widget in RenewEconomy.
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Tamil Nadu is India’s model for low-cost renewables

Thu, 2018-02-08 13:54
The Indian state of Tamil Nadu capable of doubling its wind energy capacity by 2027 and increasing its solar capacity six-fold.
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South Australia should aim for 100% renewables by 2025, not 50%

Thu, 2018-02-08 13:45
South Australia can show the rest of the nation how to build a 100 per cent renewable energy system to makes people's lives better.
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SolarReserve still falling short at flagship solar tower project

Thu, 2018-02-08 13:37
SolarReserve's flagship solar tower and storage project is still falling short of design targets. Does it deserve public money?
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Musk says storage orders surge on success of Tesla big battery

Thu, 2018-02-08 13:27
Never mind the Roadster in space, Elon Musk says the Tesla big battery in South Australia has exceeded performance targets "significantly," a success that has put a rocket under sales of the company’s commercial-scale Powerpacks.
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Germany to set end date for coal power in 2019

Thu, 2018-02-08 13:04
A commission will decide the timeline for phasing out coal, under a coalition deal agreed between social democrats and Angela Merkel’s conservatives
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Coal giant AGL cashes in on higher electricity prices

Thu, 2018-02-08 13:02
Results from Australia's biggest coal generator, AGL, shows how coal and gas companies have profited from the surge in electricity and gas prices.
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“Future is storage:” SA govt pumps for four more hydro projects

Thu, 2018-02-08 11:56
South Australia government provides funding for feasibility studies into four large pumped hydro projects in the wind and solar-rich upper Spencer Gulf.
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Redflow to install Thai-made battery stacks on ZBM2 tank sets in Brisbane to supply existing customer orders

Wed, 2018-02-07 14:43
Redflow has today received in Australia the first battery electrode stacks made by its new Thailand facility.
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Energy efficiency market report: A “spectacular” start to 2018

Wed, 2018-02-07 14:40
Having brought 2017 to a close on a comparatively stable note, the VEEC market began 2018 in a far more spectacular fashion. ESC market has also started in a positive frame of mind.
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Tasmania Libs propose solar + battery microgrid ahead of election

Wed, 2018-02-07 14:00
Tasmania's Liberal government promises to boost state energy security with $200k solar and battery storage "microgrid," if re-elected.
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Cape Town is almost out of water. Could Australian cities suffer same fate?

Wed, 2018-02-07 13:09
With water storages running low, residents of Cape Town get drinking water in the early morning from a mountain spring collection point.
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AGL pays $60,000 penalty for failing to inform customers of contract end

Wed, 2018-02-07 12:54
AGL have paid penalties totalling $60,000 in response to infringement notices issued by the Australian Energy Regulator (AER).
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Elon Musk sends Tesla Roadster into orbit, and changes space travel

Wed, 2018-02-07 12:34
ICYMI, there's a red Tesla Roadster flying through space, on a billion-year elliptic Mars orbit. Why? Well that's just how Elon Musk rolls.
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Windlab’s new 100MW wind farm approved for Queensland’s north

Wed, 2018-02-07 12:28
Windlab's 100MW, $200m Lakeland Wind Farm set to be built south of Cooktown in Queensland, after winning state government approval.
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South Australia unveils another big battery, this time with solar

Wed, 2018-02-07 11:03
Tilt Renewables to build another SA big battery, next to new solar farm and existing Snowtown windfarm, and a 300MW/1350MWh pumped hydro project near Adelaide.
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LONGi Solar to Set up 1GW Mono Cell and 1GW Mono Module Manufacturing Facility in India

Wed, 2018-02-07 10:25
Responding to growing market demand, LONGi will invest $309 million, including about $240 million in construction investment and roughly $68 million in working capital, to double the capacity of its cell and module factory in Andhra Pradesh from 500MW to 1GW respectively.
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Greensmith Energy’s Texas Waves Energy Storage project now operational, responds quickly to January cold spell, increasing grid reliability in ERCOT

Wed, 2018-02-07 09:39
Greensmith Energy, a part of the technology group Wärtsilä, has successfully completed two grid-scale energy storage systems in partnership with E.ON Climate & Renewables in Texas.
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New batteries for Hawaiian wind farm: Younicos upgrades 10 MW energy storage system

Tue, 2018-02-06 13:41
Younicos has signed an agreement with TerraForm Power to install and commission a 10 MW battery-based energy storage system upgrade at the site of the Kaheawa wind farm on the island of Maui, Hawaii.
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